The handbook of language and gender
By: edited by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff.
Contributors: Holmes, Janet, 1947-; Meyerhoff, Miriam.
Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics -- 13
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 759
Subjects: Language and sex
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Different voices, different views: an introduction to current research in language and gender -- Janet Holmes, -- Miriam Meyerhoff -- Part I. History and theoretical background to the study of language and gender; title: Theorizing gender in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology -- Bonnie McElhinny; title: Theories of discourse as theories of gender: discourse analysis in language and gender studies -- Mary Bucholtz; title: "What's in a name?" Social labeling and gender practices -- Sally McConnell-Ginet; title: Variation in language and gender -- Suzanne Romaine; title: Language and desire -- Don Kulick; title: "One man in two is a woman": linguistic approaches to gender in literary texts -- Anna Livia -- Part II. Negotiating relations; title: Language, gender, and politics: putting "women" and "power" in the same sentence -- Robin Lakoff; title: Gender and family interaction -- Deborah Tannen; title: Gender and power in on-line communication -- Susan C. Herring; title: Relevance of ethnicity, class, and gender in children's peer negotiations -- Marjorie Harness Goodwin; title: Power of gender ideologies in discourse -- Susan U. Philips -- Part III. Authenticity and place; title: Crossing genders, mixing languages: the linguistic construction of transgenderism in Tonga -- Niko Besnier; title: Claiming a place: gender, knowledge, and authority as emergent properties -- Miriam Meyerhoff; title: Constructing and managing male exclusivity in talk-in-interaction -- Jack Sidnell; title: Exceptional speakers: contested and problematized gender identities -- Kira Hall; title: Language and gender in adolescence -- Penelope Eckert; title: Language and gendered modernity -- William L. Leap; title: Marked man: the contexts of gender and ethnicity -- Sara Trechter -- Part IV. Stereotypes and norms; title: Gender and language ideologies -- Deborah Cameron; title: Gender stereotypes: reproduction and challenge -- Mary Talbot; title: Gender and identity: representation and social action -- Ann Weatherall, -- Cindy Gallois; title: Prestige, cultural models, and other ways of talking about underlying norms and gender -- Scott Fabius Kiesling; title: Communicating gendered professional identity: competence, cooperation, and conflict in the workplace -- Caja Thimm ... [et al.]; title: Linguistic sexism and feminist linguistic activism -- Anne Pauwels -- Part V. Institutional discourse; title: "Feminine" workplaces: stereotype and reality -- Janet Holmes, -- Maria Stubbe; title: Creating gendered demeanors of authority at work and at home -- Shari Kendall; title: Schooled language: language and gender in educational settings -- Joan Swann; title: Coercing gender: language in sexual assault adjudication processes -- Susan Ehrlich; title: Multiple identities: the roles of female parliamentarians in the EU parliament -- Ruth Wodak -- Epilogue:; title: Reflections on language and gender research-- Alice F. Freed